Viewing Object

Lloyd Michaud was a member of the pioneer Michaud family of Langley. Joseph and Georgina Michaud, with their five children, came to Langley in 1878. In 1888 they built the Michaud House, now the oldest house in Langley City. Lloyd Michaud was a grandson of Joseph and Georgina, and grew up in Langley Prairie. Lloyd Michaud and his brother Almer were pioneers in the aviation industry in the province in the 1940s. Following their service in the RCAF during World War II, the brothers opened a pilot training and airplane rental service at the Vancouver airport. Vancouver U-Fly prospered after 1946, when the company became the distributor for Cessna aircraft in BC and the Yukon, and also received a charter license to operate land and sea charter service from Vancouver. In 1955, the company changed its name to West Coast Air Services. Lloyd retired in the 1980s, after the company was bought out by BC Air. While Lloyd Michaud's career as an aviator is well-documented, less is known about his life as an artist. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Lloyd Michaud captured the history of the region through colourful oil paintings. Sometimes he painted from historic photographs, and other times he visited communities to paint the historic buildings and landscapes. Some of his paintings use historic photographs for inspiration, but are also based on the artist's imagination.
Term Source: HPC Record (CHURCH-22/136), The Langley Story, pg. 259 (Waite)

Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of his daughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, during a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.

Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.